David A. Johnson MD, MACG, FASGE, FACP

Dr. David A Johnson is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia School of Medicine. Despite his primary focus on the clinical practice of gastroenterology, he has published extensively in the internal medicine/gastroenterology literature, contributing over 500 articles/chapters/invited reviews and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals and books. Additionally, he co-edited the American College of Physicians (ACP) book “Dyspepsia” and edited the 2005 and 2010 GI Clinics of North America series on “Obesity Issues for Gastroenterologists” and edited the recent 2012 American College of Physicians module on CRC screening. His primary research interests are esophageal reflux disease and colon cancer screening.

He is is a Past President of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and served the ACG previously as Governor (VA), chair of ACG Quality Council Task Force, and member of the Educational Affairs, Publications, Constitution and Bylaws (Chair), Nominating (Chair) committees. Additionally since inception, he has served on the executive committee and is Treasurer of the ACG/ASGE Quality Improvement Consortium (GIQuIC) and the executive committee for the GI Political Action Committee (GIPAC). He has co-chaired the ACG National Fellows meeting for 17 yrs and previously been Course Director for the ACG Annual Post-Graduated course in 1994.

He co-founded the National Medicare Carrier advisory Committee and co-chaired that committee for 10 years. Since 2000, he has served on both the GI Multi-society CRC Screening Task Force and ACG guidelines committee for CRC screening and has co-authored these screening guidelines and other the other ongoing publications from 2000-present. Additionally, he was a member of the CDC Task Force for quality colonoscopy. While President of the ACG, he formed the consensus groups with the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association, and from 2007-2011 he worked as a coauthor on the 3 separate consensus documents which were developed and published (on NSAID and antiplatelet issues for cardiology and gastroenterology).